Franz Xaver Amrhyn

Amrhyn entered the Society of Jesus at Landsberg am Lech in 1671 and was ordained priest in Rome in 1684. He taught philosophy (a three-year course) at the University of Ingolstadt (1686–1692), and subsequently requested, without success, to be sent to the missions by the superior general of the order.^[1]

He then served as professor of theology and prefect of studies in Lucerne (1692–1698), professor of moral theology at Ingolstadt (1698–1701), and court preacher at St. Michael's in Munich (1701–1714). He was rector of the Jesuit colleges of Munich (1712–1715) and Regensburg (1715–1718), and provincial of the order (1718–1721). He subsequently served as rector at Ingolstadt (1721–1724), Regensburg (1724–1728), and Amberg in Bavaria (1728–1731).^[1]

• HS, VII, 105
• F. Strobel, Schweizer Jesuitenlexikon, ms., 1986, p. 29

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